1.   And they said they refuse to be confined to a designated protest area outside Staples Center.

2.   Forty-six others signed up to sound off in the designated protest pen, several miles away outside Grant Park.

3.   It points to the officially designated protest areas at the Republican and Democratic political conventions, which they felt were largely ignored by the mainstream press.

4.   On Monday night, police and demonstrators clashed violently at the end of a rock concert in the designated protest area.

5.   The designated protest site is at Francisco Street and Olympic Boulevard.

6.   The only serious confrontation of the day happened as protesters tried to filter into the designated protest center outside Staples Center.

7.   Police also mark off designated protest areas too far from the event for the demonstrators to be heard, he says.

8.   Bush aides have said they strayed from a designated protest area.

9.   Gathered at a designated protest area two blocks from the Waldorf, they exercised to taped music, chatted with police and handed out leaflets.